Tool support for traceability of software artefacts

2015 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) Pub Date : 2015-04-07 DOI:10.1109/MERCON.2015.7112366

K. Kamalabalan, T. Uruththirakodeeswaran, G. Thiyagalingam, Diunuge Buddhika Wijesinghe, I. Perera, D. Meedeniya, D. Balasubramaniam

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Artefact management in a software development process is a challenging problem. Often there is a wide variety of artefacts, which are maintained separately within a software development process, such as requirement specifications, architectural concerns, design specifications, source codes and test cases, which are essential to software engineering. Artefact inconsistency is a major problem since these artefacts evolve at different rates. Maintaining traceability links among these artefacts and updating those artefacts accordingly can be a solution to address artefact inconsistency. There is a need for establishing these artefact traceability links in semi-automatic way. Proper management and visualization tool is required for effective software artefact management in an incremental software development. We present a prototype tool to establish artefact traceability links and visualization of those. This paper describes the research methodology and relevant research carried out for semi-automatic traceability link establishment and visualization of software artefacts.

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对软件工件可追溯性的工具支持

软件开发过程中的工件管理是一个具有挑战性的问题。通常有各种各样的工件，它们在软件开发过程中是单独维护的，例如需求说明、体系结构关注、设计说明、源代码和测试用例，它们对软件工程至关重要。工件不一致是一个主要问题，因为这些工件以不同的速度发展。维护这些工件之间的可追溯性链接，并相应地更新这些工件，可能是解决工件不一致的解决方案。需要以半自动的方式建立这些工件的可追溯性链接。在增量式软件开发中，有效的软件工件管理需要适当的管理和可视化工具。我们提出了一个原型工具来建立工件的可追溯性链接和可视化。本文介绍了软件工件的半自动追溯链路建立和可视化的研究方法及相关研究。

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